Word: grammars
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When Sam was 13. his father's health failed, and by the rigid seniority rules governing the Newhouse clan, the oldest male child took over as head of the family. Sam's qualifications for this office were fewer than his years: a grammar-school education at Bayonne's P.S. 7, plus whatever acumen he had absorbed in a business course in Manhattan (to save the 3¢ ferry fare, young Newhouse toted
Young Heath first showed a flair for music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany...
...decision making-he did not even hold a title at Korvette's until 1955 when, at his bankers' insistence, he invented for himself the job of chairman of the executive committee-Ferkauf delegated to one old friend after another all the time-nibbling detail work. A grammar school chum named Marty Agins has charge of the Westbury, Long Island, store. Joe Zwillenberg became company treasurer. Another executive job went to Abe Goldstein, a fellow Brooklynite whom Ferkauf met on K.P. duty at Camp Crowder, Mo. Recalls Ferkauf: "I was washing dishes, and Abe came over...
Keeping Fit. Snell never walks anywhere if he can run instead. The headmaster of Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School recalls a day in 1957 when Snell won two matches for the school's tennis team, then played a starring role in a cricket match. A little later, the headmaster found him running around the school track in shorts and T shirt. "What are you doing, Snell?" he asked. "I want to keep fit, sir," the 17-year-old replied...
...noted for his seven-volume text and delightful translation in the Loeb Classical Library of the works of Athenaeums, a Greek antiquarian of the second century A.D. valued especially as a source of quotations from lost authors of the Greek past. His revision of the standard Greek grammar of his teacher continues in use as the Goodwin-Gulick Greek Grammar...